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Several lawmakers on the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have proposed a bill that would ensure a...
11/19/2025

Several lawmakers on the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have proposed a bill that would ensure air traffic controllers are paid during future government shutdowns.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email WASHINGTON, D.C. — Several lawmakers who sit on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have proposed a bill that would ensure air traffic controllers are paid during future government shutdowns. The shutdown that ended Nov. 12 lasted 43 days, th...

Nov. 21 is the deadline to submit responses to our latest AeroPuzzler. Your challenge: Tell us in 250 words how the Hubb...
11/19/2025

Nov. 21 is the deadline to submit responses to our latest AeroPuzzler. Your challenge: Tell us in 250 words how the Hubble Telescope helped confirm the existence of dark energy.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email ENCORE: We ran this question in April 2022 and didn’t get any correct responses. So let’s try this again. Q: Dark energy, of course, is invisible. Yet scientists discovered the existence of it partly through visible light observations from |the Hubble Space ...

ICYMI: Elon Musk predicts he can land humans on Mars as soon as 2029. We examine the strategy to get there and the techn...
11/18/2025

ICYMI: Elon Musk predicts he can land humans on Mars as soon as 2029. We examine the strategy to get there and the technical challenges that must be overcome.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email Despite meeting all objectives of the 10th Starship test in August, SpaceX’s goal of sending the first Starships toward Mars this decade may still be out of reach. Jon Kelvey examines the proposed plan and the required technologies. Over the years, Elon Musk h...

Joby today announced plans to conduct demonstration flights all five days of the Dubair Airshow. Here's what else to exp...
11/17/2025

Joby today announced plans to conduct demonstration flights all five days of the Dubair Airshow. Here's what else to expect from the event, which runs Nov. 17-21.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email This story has been updated to reflect a Nov. 17 announcement by Joby about its UAE plans. This year’s Dubai Airshow is expected to feature a stronger presence from Boeing after a subdued Paris Air Show, as well as electric air taxi demonstration flights and a...

Joby Aviation is readying to enter the final stage of flight testing needed before FAA can issue a type certificate for ...
11/14/2025

Joby Aviation is readying to enter the final stage of flight testing needed before FAA can issue a type certificate for its all-electric S4, the first in the industry.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email Electric air taxi developer Joby Aviation is readying to enter the final stage of flight testing needed before FAA can issue a type certificate for its all-electric S4, the first in the industry. For this TIA phase, short for Type Inspection Authorization, the c...

This year’s Dubai Airshow is expected to feature a stronger presence from Boeing after a subdued Paris Air Show, as well...
11/14/2025

This year’s Dubai Airshow is expected to feature a stronger presence from Boeing after a subdued Paris Air Show, as well as electric air taxi demonstration flights and a sales push from Chinese aircraft manufacturers.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email This year’s Dubai Airshow is expected to feature a stronger presence from Boeing after a subdued Paris Air Show, as well as electric air taxi demonstration flights and a sales push from Chinese aircraft manufacturers. The annual show runs from Nov. 17-21. Orga...

Blue Origin launched its second New Glenn on Thursday, lofting a pair of NASA spacecraft bound for Mars and, for the fir...
11/13/2025

Blue Origin launched its second New Glenn on Thursday, lofting a pair of NASA spacecraft bound for Mars and, for the first time, completing a vertical landing of the rocket’s first stage on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Blue Origin launched its second New Glenn on Thursday, lofting a pair of NASA spacecraft bound for Mars and, for the first time, completing a vertical landing of the rocket’s first stage on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. The 98-meter-t...

ICYMI: The arrival of multiple broadband megaconstellations on orbit could make on-orbit navigation more complicated tha...
11/13/2025

ICYMI: The arrival of multiple broadband megaconstellations on orbit could make on-orbit navigation more complicated than ever.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email SpaceX has proven that thousands of satellites can be operated without collisions in low-Earth orbit, but that task could become more difficult as Amazon and others deploy their own megaconstellations. Jonathan O’Callaghan explores the factors at play. In Sept...

Anticipated solar storms today prompted NASA and Blue Origin to cancel the launch of the agency’s ESCAPADE spacecraft to...
11/12/2025

Anticipated solar storms today prompted NASA and Blue Origin to cancel the launch of the agency’s ESCAPADE spacecraft to avoid potential damage and loss of the mission, according to principal investigator Robert Lillis.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email Anticipated solar storms today prompted NASA and Blue Origin to cancel the launch of the agency’s ESCAPADE spacecraft to avoid potential damage and loss of the mission, according to Robert Lillis, the effort’s principal investigator. “The solar event that ...

In a paper published today in Nature, European astronomers describe the first confirmed sighting of a coronal mass eject...
11/12/2025

In a paper published today in Nature, European astronomers describe the first confirmed sighting of a coronal mass ejection from a star outside our solar system.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email Coronal mass ejections from the sun are among the most violent events in our solar system — so much so that with one approaching Earth today, NASA and Blue Origin called off the second launch attempt of the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft, which coincidentally are bo...

For the second article in our three-part Goddard Centennial Series, historians dig into the public reaction to Goddard’s...
11/11/2025

For the second article in our three-part Goddard Centennial Series, historians dig into the public reaction to Goddard’s early research and its impact on the technical community.

Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email While today’s aerospace professionals and the general public laud Robert Goddard as a technical genius and visionary, that wasn’t always the case. His early studies received negative reactions in the press that prompted Goddard to become protective — vergi...

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